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A CORRESPONDENT inquires our opinion of washing plum-trees with coal-tar- 

 water as a remedy for the curculio. — Only experiment can answer this question, 

 and we do not know that it has ever been made. But it is well known that carbolic 

 acid is very destructive to all insect-life, and we think it probable that the tar- 

 water may contain enough of this acid to be efficacious against the curculio ; but 

 we would recommend showering the whole tree rather than washing the trunk. 



